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"If they don’t go forward with it, it’s going to look bad for them. People are going to consider the Tea Party movement a toothless tiger. And they are not going to be able to strike fear into the hearts of a lot of elected officials the way they have up to this point simply by being loud and protesting, occasionally, at these rallies that they’ve done.
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- Chuck Muth, Publisher of Nevada News and Views, on the failure, so far, by the Tea Party Movement, to make good on its recall threat against State Senator Bill Raggio.
- Tuesday, January 5, 2010.
"He does have an advantage. That he is actually Governor now and he has pretty good access to the press whenever he wants it. He has a paid state staff that puts out press releases lambasting Senator Reid on the health care bill. They are constantly trying to get him in front of the news. So as far as getting him exposure, they’re pretty good at that.
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- Anjeanette Damon, Reno-Gazette Journal political reporter, discussing the balance between the governor's lack of campaign funds and the power of incumbency in the gubernatorial primary battle unfolding this year. - Monday, January 4, 2010.
"In each one of those (companies), there is, we believe, the kernel or the core of a technology that generates jobs, a lot of income, and scales very quickly."
- Norman Smith, Executive Director of business incubator C4CUBE, asked about the characteristics that make a start-up business a good bet for development assistance.
- Thursday, December 31, 2009.
"There’s huge opportunities. My prediction is they will take place. They will take time to do, and do right… and we’ll see what happens. I think we’ll get there in this whole renewables thing. But it’s not going to happen tomorrow."
- Ray Bacon, Executive Director of the Nevada Manufacturers Association, summarizing the prospects for renewable energy development in Nevada. - Wednesday, December 30, 2009.
"Right now in Vegas, six thousand more rooms just came on line with the opening of City Center… Two more resorts are soon to open up. Planet Hollywood has just added about twelve hundred more rooms to the capacity of Vegas…… and we just probably won’t see any more building of this type, of the high end, high luxury for many, many more years."
- Marybel Batjer, VP of Public Policy and Communications for Harrah's Entertainment, asked about the continual upscaling of Las Vegas hotel-casino properties over the past two decades, and the upward pressure on revenue needed to cover costs. - Monday, December 28, 2009.
"If it’s for me, I don’t think we spend enough.
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- Former Assembly Speaker Bill Bilyeu, commenting on the amount of money spent on end of life medical care. - Wednesday, December 23, 2009.
"I’m not quite sure who goes to jail, when it doesn’t happen. I hope it’s not the Chief of Staff.
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- Robin Reedy, Chief of Staff to Governor Gibbons, on the Constitutional requirement to balance the State’s budget. - Tuesday, December 22, 2009.
"Most of this bill does not go into effect until after 2014, which is after the Obama re-election campaign. So Senator Reid, next year as he’s running for a tough re-election, will be able to tout the benefits of this bill and there will be no real effects of it until long after the election is gone.
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- Tray Abney, Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce, discussing the health care reform currently working its way through congress. - Monday, December 21, 2009.
"Those who use retail for therapy will find a lot of fun there.
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- Rose McKinney-James, Managing Principal, Energy Works LLC and Board Member for MGM-Mirage, discussing the high-end retail at CityCenter. - Thursday, December 17, 2009.
"Hundreds of thousands of dollars. The bills are still coming.
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- Lt Governor Brian Krolicki, on the cost of defending himself against the criminal case brought by the Nevada Attorney General, which was dropped last week.
- Wednesday, December 16, 2009.
"There are a lot of people who think now this is just payback to those Democrats who opposed him in the primary in Connecticut, and I really think it is beneath Joe Lieberman for what he’s doing now, if it is retribution.
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- Marlene Lockhard, Capital Strategies on the power that Senator Lieberman holds to derail any health care bill he has problems with.
- Tuesday, December 15, 2009.
"I think that John McCain was very honest in the fall campaign when he said that you’re looking at a fifty, sixty year commitment if this is something that you think is that important to American foreign policy.
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- Fred Locken, Professor of Political Science, TMCC on how long we could be bogged down in Afganistan.
- Monday, December 14, 2009.
"Some people excel to the point where they exceed the political parties. Senator Raggio is a statesman above Democrat or Republican, and that may offend some in the Republican Party.
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- John Gwaltney, economist, in defense of the Senate Minority Leader, who is under attack from the far right wing of the party. - Thursday, December 10, 2009.
"I was told by one of the Governor's staff that they felt it was necessary, that they couldn’t rely on fiscal staff to do this because the people wouldn’t accept that. I don’t buy into that.
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- State Senator Bill Raggio, calling the Governor’s move to reconvene the Economic Forum early an unnecessary political move. - Wednesday, December 9, 2009.
"They came in at a time when it was just too early. If that would happen now, it might be a lot different.
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- Ralph Toddre, President and CEO, Sunbelt Communications, discussing the failed merger of AOL/Time Warner, as against the synergy of the pending Comcast/NBC Universal purchase.
- Tuesday, December 8, 2009.
"Shows the power of people upset with Harry Reid around the country, too.
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- Danny Tarkanian, Republican primary candidate for U.S. Senate, who got over 7,000 campaign contributions in a six-week period following his appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s national conservative talk show. (The host asked the audience to contribute.) - Monday, December 7, 2009.
